Father
Charles P. Connor, the Historian of the Diocese of Scranton, received
his early education in Saint Rose School, Carbondale, Penna. He
is a graduate of the University of Scranton, where he also received his
Master's Degree in United States History. In 1979, he received
his PH.D, in United States History from Fordham University, New York
City.

He served as Adjunct Professor of History at the University of
Scranton, and his articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals
and Catholic publications. His column OUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE
appears in each issue of The Catholic Light, official newspaper of the
Diocese of Scranton. Two of his books have been published by
Ignatius Press, San Francisco: Classic Catholic Converts in 2001,
and DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH IN WORD AND DEED in 2003.

Father has co-produced several series for the Eternal Word Television
Network, including: The History of the Catholic Church in the
United States, Historic Catholic Converts, Defenders of Faith in Word
and Deed, Doctors of the Church, The Catholic Priesthood through the
Ages, Therese of Lisieux: The Saint for the Third Millennium, and
most recently, The Sacraments through the Ages. He has appeared
several times as the guest of Mother Angelica on her nationally
syndicated program, MOTHER ANGELICA LIVE, as well as with Marcus Grodi
on the Journey Home, and THE WORLD OVER, E.W.T.N's national news
program.

Father Connor received a PH.D in Philosophy from the Catholic
University of Louvain in Belgium, and an S.T.B and M.A. in Theology
from the Gregorian and Angelicum Universities in Rome, where he
received his priestly formation at the North American College.

Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Scranton in 1990, he served for ten
years as Assistant Pastor of Saint Patrick's Parish in Scranton.
He has served as Pastor of Saint John the Evangelist Parish in
Susquehanna, Penna., and on July 3, 2003 was named Pastor of Saint Rose
of Lima Parish in Carbondale, Penna.

Fr. Charles Connor
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1210 Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law. There are seven:
Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the
Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. The seven sacraments
touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life:
they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian's
life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages
of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.

1131 The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by
Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed
to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify
and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit
in those who receive them with the required dispositions.

1116 Sacraments are "powers that comes forth" from the Body of Christ,
which is ever-living and life-giving. They are actions of the Holy
Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. They are "the masterworks of
God" in the new and everlasting covenant.